Import text and geometry from Inkscape
Tutorial |
Topic |
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Import text and geometry from Inkscape |
Level |
Beginner |
Time to complete |
30 minutes |
Authors |
r-frank |
FreeCAD version |
0.16.6704 |
Example files |
See also |
None |
Introduction
This tutorial is supposed to show how to import text or geometry created with inkscape via svg-format into FreeCAD.
Inkscape 0.91 and FreeCAD 0.16.6704 on Windows are used for these operations.
General tipps for importing from inkscape
- the svg-import in FreeCAD cannot handle a svg file with a resolution of more than 45 dpi, so check the settings in inkscape
- when importing path objects which show up in the 3D view in FreeCAD not very smooth it may be a matter of the FreeCAD-settings for the shape view.
- in FreeCAD choose Edit → Preferences → Part Design → Shape View
- as for "Tesselation", the "Maximum deviation depending on the model bounding box" the default value is "0,5 %"
- setting this to a lower value will increase smoothness of the model in the 3D view (and use more PC performance)
- don't use values lower than "0,01 %", this will most likely crash FreeCAD
- in that case deleting "system.cfg" and "user.cfg" in your FreeCAD-user-directory will solve this problem
Importing text from Inkscape
- after inserting text in inkscape (and perhaps applying effects like bending or something else to it) make sure to
- select your text and choose Path → Object to path
- ungroup your objects
- save as "plain svg (*.svg)" file format
- open the file in FreeCAD, choosing the option "SVG as geometry (importSVG)"
- a path object for each letter/number/sign will be created in the tree view
- use draft upgrade on each path object to create faces
- use pad or extrude on the faces to get solids
- you can fuse your objects or use compound on them depending on your intended further work